Old 06-03-12 | 10:22 PM
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randomgear
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Safe for cycling or safe for your civil liberties? This is clearly an Article 21 intrusion on our automobile driving culture!
I am rather stunned by the width of the parking lane, it measured about 9' wide on google earth, I'm used to 7.5'); and I was surprised to measure the travel lanes at about 10' wide, I expected wider. The bike lane seemed about 5' wide. While not perfect, this door-zone bike lane seems much better than most.
I would suggest two things for markings:
Add hash marks to help delineate the door zone.
Remind whoever designs the lanes that 5' is really the absolute minimum width. I couldn't tell if the road was somewhat downhill, or if you are just speedy or had a tailwind, but downhill lanes really need to be wider because of a cyclists potential speed.
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